[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, County Council of the Palatine of Chester / Cheshire County Council.

  • Cheshire County Council
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, County Council of the Palatine of Chester / Cheshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and in consequence 96 cases of diarrhoea were notified. At Dukinfield, at one time, medical practitioners were requested to notify all severe cases of diarrhoea, but only a single case was notified. At Chorley, in the course of the year, the Local Board added measles to the list of infectious diseases to be notified. The Medical Officer of Health for the Warrington Rural District thinks measles should be subject to compulsory notification, and the Medical Officer of Health for Bredbury and Romiley recommends that both measles and whooping-cough should be subject to compulsory notifica- tion. At Bollington, the Medical Officer of Health reports that he advised the Local Board to include measles and phthisis in the list of infectious diseases to be notified, and a resolution to this effect was proposed and seconded at a meeting of the Board on January 4th, 1894, but was lost by one vote. At Winsford and at the Altrincham Rural District, the Medical Officer of Health advised the Authorities to make chicken-pox notifiable temporarily, and they did so. Accordingly 8 cases of chicken-pox were notified at Winsford and 2 in Altrincham Rural District—2 were also notified in the town of Northwich. Certain cases of small-pox had been mistaken for chicken-pox, and this led to the proposal that the latter should be subject to com- pulsory notification. The Medical Officer of Health for these districts questions the usefulness of notification, and objects strongly to erysipelas having been included in the list in the Act. The Medical Officer of Health for Drayton suggests that every notifier should sign a declaration that he had promptly given all apparently needful instructions. Hospitals for Infectious Diseases.—As far as the Medical Officer of Health has been able to ascertain, the Hospital accommodation in the Administrative County for the isolation and treatment of cases of infectious disease is .as follows:— Altrincham.—Lloyd’s Fever Hospital. Altrincham Rural Authority.—A marquee, and a cottage used as a temporary hospital. Congkton Borough.— Cottages set apart as a Hospital for small-pox. Congleton Rural Authority’s Hospital at Arclid. Crewe Borough Hospital for small-pox. LIyde Corporation Hospital. Lymm.— Hospital extemporized for small-pox. , Macclesfield.—Small “ Ducker Hospital.”